Difference in religious beliefs and confessions does not constitute in Roumania an obstacle to the obtainment of civil and political rights, nor to the exercise of these rights. (1) A foreigner without distinction of religion, and whether a subject or not of a foreign government, can become naturalized under the following conditions: (a) He shall address to the government an application for naturalization, in which he shall indicate the capital he possesses, the profession or craft which he follows, and his abode in Roumania. (b) He shall reside, after this application, ten years in the country, and prove, by action, that he is of service to it. (2) The following may be exempted from the intermediary stages: (a) Those who have brought into the country industries, useful inventions, or talent, or who have founded large establishments of commerce or industry. (b) Those who, born and bred in Roumania, of parents established in the country, have never been subjected, either themselves or their parents, to any protection by a foreign power. (c) Those who have served under the colors during the war of independence; these may be naturalized collectively by government decree, by a single resolution, and without any further formality. (3) Naturalization can not be given except by law, and individually. (4) A special law shall determine the manner in which foreigners may establish their home on Roumanian territory. (5) Only Roumanians, and those who have been naturalized Roumanians, can buy rural estates in Roumania. APPENDIX C. SECRETARY HAY'S NOTE. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, } WASHINGTON, _August 11, 1902_. } "Excellency:--In the course of an instruction recently sent to the Minister accredited to the Government of Roumania in regard to the bases of negotiation begun with that government looking to a convention of naturalization between the United States and Roumania, certain considerations were set forth for the Minister's guidance concerning the character of the emigration from that country, the causes which constrain it, and the consequences so far as they adversely affect the United States. "It has seemed to the President appropriate that these considerations, relating as they do to the obligations entered into by the signatories of the Treaty of Berlin, of July 13, 1878, should be brought to the attention of the Governments concerned, and commended to their consideration in the hope that, if they are so fortunate as to meet the approval of the several Powers, such measures as to them may seem wise may be taken to persuade the Government of Roumania to reconsider the subject of the grievances in question.